Chapter 3 Acceleration and free fall - Light and Matter

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x (m) t (s) 10 1.84 20 2.86 30 3.80 40 4.67 50 5.53 60 6.38 70 7.23 80 8.10 90 8.96 100 9.83 h / Discussion question D. 136 Chapter 4 Force and motion Discussion questions A Show that the Newton can be reexpressed in terms of the three basic mks units as the combination kg·m/s 2 . B What is wrong with the following statements? (1) “g is the force of gravity.” (2) “Mass is a measure of how much space something takes up.” C Criticize the following incorrect statement: “If an object is at rest and the total force on it is zero, it stays at rest. There can also be cases where an object is moving and keeps on moving without having any total force on it, but that can only happen when there’s no friction, like in outer space.” D Table h gives laser timing data for Ben Johnson’s 100 m dash at the 1987 World Championship in Rome. (His world record was later revoked because he tested positive for steroids.) How does the total force on him change over the duration of the race?
4.4 What force is not Violin teachers have to endure their beginning students’ screeching. A frown appears on the woodwind teacher’s face as she watches her student take a breath with an expansion of his ribcage but none in his belly. What makes physics teachers cringe is their students’ verbal statements about forces. Below I have listed six dicta about what force is not. 1. Force is not a property of one object. A great many of students’ incorrect descriptions of forces could be cured by keeping in mind that a force is an interaction of two objects, not a property of one object. Incorrect statement: “That magnet has a lot of force.” If the magnet is one millimeter away from a steel ball bearing, they may exert a very strong attraction on each other, but if they were a meter apart, the force would be virtually undetectable. The magnet’s strength can be rated using certain electrical units (ampere − meters 2 ), but not in units of force. 2. Force is not a measure of an object’s motion. If force is not a property of a single object, then it cannot be used as a measure of the object’s motion. Incorrect statement: “The freight train rumbled down the tracks with awesome force.” Force is not a measure of motion. If the freight train collides with a stalled cement truck, then some awesome forces will occur, but if it hits a fly the force will be small. 3. Force is not energy. There are two main approaches to understanding the motion of objects, one based on force and one on a different concept, called energy. The SI unit of energy is the Joule, but you are probably more familiar with the calorie, used for measuring food’s energy, and the kilowatt-hour, the unit the electric company uses for billing you. Physics students’ previous familiarity with calories and kilowatthours is matched by their universal unfamiliarity with measuring forces in units of Newtons, but the precise operational definitions of the energy concepts are more complex than those of the force concepts, and textbooks, including this one, almost universally place the force description of physics before the energy description. During the long period after the introduction of force and before the careful definition of energy, students are therefore vulnerable to situations in which, without realizing it, they are imputing the properties of energy to phenomena of force. Incorrect statement: “How can my chair be making an upward force on my rear end? It has no power!” Power is a concept related to energy, e.g., a 100-watt lightbulb uses Section 4.4 What force is not 137
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